Instagram Tests New Birthday Profile Effect

Here’s a little quirky addition Instagram has for everyone – the platform is currently testing a new option to help users celebrate their birthday, with a special Birthday photo effect that would be visible on your profile for the day. Everybody deserves to enjoy their special day, one way or another, right? Though applicable mostly […]

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New Microsoft Revenue Machinations for Bing Chat

As generative AI continues to become a bigger factor in content discovery, there are various questions about how this will impact SEO, as well as publisher revenue, given how fewer people will be tapping through on search results, with AI tools summarizing the information for them instead. Bing! Goes the Register Are you looking for […]

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Meta Could Ban Certain Ads in Europe

With the next wave of EU data privacy laws coming in, Meta’s developing a new set of options for EU users only that would allow them to opt out of personalized ads. Meanwhile, the company’s also considering banning political ads in Europe entirely, as it works to bring itself into line with the updated rules. […]

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Twitter Announces New API Access Tiers

Twitter just rolled out its new pricing for API access, hooray! However, for the most part, that basically means that much smaller players might be forced out of the market because these prices aren’t necessarily ‘business-friendly’. With the Twitter 2.0 team significantly upping the price, while simultaneously reducing the capacity of developer and researcher access. […]

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Meta Provides New Ad Placement Controls

As it continues to refine its tools and provide more of them to better facilitate brand safety in ad placement, Meta has launched a new set of inventory filters for Facebook and Instagram Feeds, which will provide a simple way for brands to avoid unwanted association with potentially offensive, or otherwise undesirable content. Plop It […]

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